Seminars & Events
Entomology Seminars
(Entomology 250 Seminar)
Located in 1102A of the Genomics building on Monday's at 4:10PM.
Refreshments are served at 3:30 in the Entomology building
Seminar Schedule
Date: January 09, 2012
Speaker: Tim Landgraf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Title: Robobee: A robotic Honeybee for the analysis of the Dance Communication System
Host: Visscher 2-3973
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Date: January 16, 2012
HOLIDAY - NO SEMINAR
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Date: January 23, 2012
Speaker: John Stoffolano, Dept. Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences. Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ttile: The dipteran crop and its role in the evolution of hyperdiverse lineage of insects.
Host: Carde 2-4492
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Date: January 30, 2012
Speaker: Robert Miller, USDA-ARS, Lifestock insects Res. Lab., Kerrville, TX
Title: Cattle fever tick readication from the United States: Challenges and future opportunities.
Host: Gerry 2-70547
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Date: February 6, 2012
Speaker: Steve Yanoviak, Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Title: Behavior and ecology of ants in the tropical forest canopy
Host: Grad Student - TBA
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Date: February 13, 2012
Speaker: Brad Hawkins, Dept. of Ecol. & Evol. Biol., UC Irvine
Ttile: Niche conservatism and butterfly diversity gradients.
Host: Grad Student - TBA
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Date: February 20, 2012
HOLIDAY - NO SEMINAR
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Date: February 27, 2012
Speaker: Rosemary Gillespie, Environ, Sc., Policy & Management, UC Berkeley
Title: Adapting to tropical islands: Comparing diversification of spiders across remote archipelagos of Polynesia.
Host: Heraty 2-6351
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Date: March 5, 2012
Speaker: Nancy Moran, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Title: Boyce Lecture - TBA
Host: Stouthamer 2-2422
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Date: March 12, 2012
Speaker: Bob Lane, Environ. Sc., Policy & Management, UC Berkeley
Title: Factors Contributing to the Low Incidence of Lyme Disease in California
Host: Gerry 2-7054